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New Data Wipe Tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas C. Greene)
Sat Sep 11 10:25:43 2004
From: "Thomas C. Greene" <thomas.greene@theregister.co.uk>
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Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 17:10:39 -0700
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I've created a few simple shell scripts that use /dev/urandom to wipe data
from the swap partition, wipe unused disk space on the root partition, or
wipe an entire disk. You'll find them at http://basicsec.org/tools.html.
Data hygiene is generally easier on *nix because there are fewer hiding places
than on a Windows system, but there are no free wipe tools that i'm aware of.
So I got busy.
This is not a perfect solution, but it's a step. I'd be delighted to knows
from fellow list members what I might do to improve them. The scripts are
freely available and freely modifyable (is "modifyable" a legitimate word?)
PS: See the README file for cautions, exceptions, and caveats.
thanks,
--tcg
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Thomas C. Greene
Associate Editor
The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk
http://basicsec.org
